The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-01-06
WHEAT CORN.
Miscellaneous,

As a testimonial of respect for the dis
tinguished services and illustrious memory
of the late Senator John A. Logan, Gov
ernor Martin ordered the flags on the State
House to be suspended at half mast until
after the funeral.
W. D. KELLEY, who last fall ran for State
Auditor On the Democratic ticket, has re-
ceived the appointment of postal clerk on
the Atchison, Topeka q Santa Fe railroad
between Kansas City and Pueblo, Col.
THE third annual meetiSg of the Kansas
Equal Suffrage Association will be held in
Toe eka, January =. u and l3, 1897. Susan
B. anthony and other prominent Suffrag'
lists will be present. Free entertainment
will be furnished all delegates.
A LATE fire at Leavenworth destroyed
Ette nsOn's dry goods store. Loss, S33,OOO.
DETAILS of the express robbery arrests.
as published, created much excitement at
Leavenworth. Every party yet implicated
in it is former resident of that city.
Weaver. Cook. Whitrock and Haight were
schOolboys there together. As they grew
up they became wild and reckless. anC
were always classed as rough characters
They were all in that place last summer
and it is believed that the robbery was
planned in Leavenworth.
General Bradford suggests, among other
changes in the Prohibitory law. a provision
that probate judges shall receive stated
salaries. and the five-cent fee, if collected
at all, turned over to the county treasurer
for the benefit of some fund to assist in
making the law more efTectual. He also
recommends that in addition to the affidavit
now made by the druggist that the state
6Ia6 NJ him zach month rpDrpScpi
all the liquors sold by him, require him to
state under oath that the persons applying
for the same were persons known to him.
were identified. and that the liquors sold
were desired for legitimate purposes, and
that in addition thereto that the applicant
signed his own name and not q fictitious
name to the statement. The statement
made bv the applicant should be sworn &c
and false statement should subject the
person making the same to prosecution for
perjury
PosT-oFFICE changes in Kansas for thc
week ended December %: Established,
Maud. Morton County, Hugh B. NJ. Fulton:
postmaster. POstmasters appointed. Odln.
Barton County. John N. Seus: Pierceville
Finney County, Jacob Wilder; Wellington,
Sumner County, Edith Love; Wettrup.
Hodgeman County, John Beaver.
THE detectives dug out at LeavenwOrth
near $4,000 of the money stolen by Whit
rock and his confederates from the Adams
Express Company on the Frisco road last
October. Whitrock alleged that he was
prompted 70 steal in order to lift the mort
gage of Isl. 100 on his mothers house, which
money he had borrowed and could not re-
place.
THE annual meeting of the Kansas State
Teachers Association commenced at Rep
retentative Hall, Topeka, on the night of
the 2Sth and continued several days. The
attendance of prominent educators was
very large. Governor Martin delivered the
address of welcome, and Prof. ?. j. Will
liams, of Lawrence, president of the asso-
citation, made the annual address.
THERE are between 400 and 800 mills in
Kansas, involving an investment of a cap
ital of about SS.000,000 Two hundred and
fifty-two of these mills ground 1856, ,S91
bushels for the year ended June 30, 1856, or
an average of O.. $50 bushels each; TO 90 this
they run o. 704 days of twelve hours, aver
aging 24S days, or 12t days of twenty
four hours, the average bushels of
grain ground TO each day of twelve
hours being 252. Two hundred
and forty mills aggregated 639.24l. .01c
pounds of product, not including Offal. which
reduced to barrels, gives about 3,195,205 or
1887 to each. The average capacity OF
these mills seems to have been in round
numbers 100 barrels each twenty four hours.
and running equal to 124 twenty-four hour
davs. 252 of them ground over 16,0Jo,ON
bushels of grain. These figures are taken
from the report of Labor Commissioner
BettCn.
CoLDwATER is to have city park.
ONChristmas day Governor Martin issueo
par6Ons TO Thomas Currew, of Douglas
County, and George a. Plowman, of Norton
County.
THE Sundry Civil Appropriation bill as
passed by the House of Representatives
makes the following appropriations for the
Leavenworth Soldiers Home: For current
expenses. S23, ,7611; for subsistence, SS2- l25:
clothing. S25, 600; for household expenses,
S35.S42: for hospital, $1,000; for trans
portation of members, g, 755; for construc-
ton. $1,000; for farm SIP; total, sl97, ,2Ol.
The same bill appropriates for the support
of the Leavenworth military prison total
of SIS. .S3S.
D. j. CHASE has been appointed general
superintendent of the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe railroad.
A CHARTER was filed the other day for the
Nebraska. Sansas & Cimarron River rail-
way, for the construction of line through
the counties of Decatur. Rawlins, Thomas,
St John. Wichita and Hamilton, in Kansas,
striking the town Of Kendall. in Hamilton
County, and through the county of Morton
to the coal mines, on the Cimarron river. on
No Mans Land; estimated length OF road,
1900 miles Kendall is named as the prin-
cipal place Of business. Capital stock, So
10000.
THE proposition to vote bonds for water
works and sewerage in Garden City carried
by 17S majority.
THE Kansas Bar Association will meet in
the Supreme Court room, Topeka, January
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